In a list of twenty seven grievances, immigration is seventh. Taxation without representation is seventeenth.

Tucked away in West Yorkshire is a hidden piece of transatlantic history perfect for the Fourth of July. The Triumphal Arch on the Parlington Estate in Aberford is Britain's only monument dedicated to American independence. Built in 1783 by the eccentric, whig-sympathising

Hoe ons zorgstelsel een miljoenenbedrijf laat wegkomen, terwijl ernstig zieke kinderen en hun families de prijs betalen. Het klinkt absurd, toch gebeurt het. Prima samenvatting van het frustrerende debat vandaag. 👇🏼 nos.nl/artikel/2621...

Israel holds thousands of Palestinian hostages, including children. The Israeli regime starves them, beats them, tortures them, sexually abuses them, deprives them of medical treatment & murders them. But the UK mainstream media rarely (if ever) talks about these hostages.

There's a special place in Hell for the person who created the "sex and gender are different things!" talking point. I've hated it for as long as I've heard it. It's trash.

#OTD 1858 Alice Lee b (d 5 Oct 1939). Showing that "negative” studies can have major impact, her doctoral research demonstrated no correlation between skull volume & intelligence. As craniometry was used to “scientifically prove” male genius & female inferiority, the fallout was massive.

Reading @dannybate.com's book 'Why Q needs U' I wonder how many memes already have been inspired by it.

Europa loopt ver achter in AI-race en de doemscenario's komen nu al uit - nos.nl/l/2620589 Bedoelen ze daar dit mee: Tabaksgigant laat AI 'publieksreacties' schrijven tegen strengere EU-regels: 'Dit is valsspelen' - nos.nl/l/2620686

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

À Gaza, Israël continue de tuer des enfants. L’ONU enquête sur ce qui s’apparente à un génocide. Et en attendant, aucune trêve pour les gazaouis. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Het spel is nog steeds razend populair, ook al is het al

Ik hoop zo dat Australië tegenover Iran komt te staan. Dan zien we pas echt hoe goed hun Irankunde is!

the fact that someone is talking about IQ says more than anything they could chose to say about it

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

LLM based AI is just a database. A database trained in the past. If applied to our endeavour the result will be ossification at best.

Being against bike lanes is the number one red flag there’s deeper, darker views a person holds that we just don’t know about

This is something I struggle with. I appreciate that men want models of how to be. But when we try to populate “positive masculinity” with traits — strong, smart, kind — they are all equally available to women. Masculinity and femininity are empty concepts, absent gender hierarchy.

In het debat over justitiële jeugd, hoorde ik rechtse partijen opnieuw pleiten voor meer en hardere straffen. Dat klinkt natuurlijk stoer. Maar we wéten dat juist mensen met een verstandelijke beperking worden geronseld. Daarom is preventie zoveel belangrijker! www.omroepwest.nl/misdaad/5116...

Trump wanted to build American Arc de Triomphe, but he built American Père Lachaise instead.

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

This is the most incredible triumph of propaganda in my lifetime. The idea that Hitler was "left" and/or a "socialist" once was correctly seen as self-evidently insane. But here we have the richest & most powerful man on earth blithely repeating it.

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

Het absurdste aan dit hele verhaal is toch wel dat dit in 2017 al is onthuld door Roemeense onderzoeksjournalisten en dat de beste man vervolgens nog acht jaar rustig kon doordoen. Pas in 2025 kwam een collega van hem het Roemeense nieuws toevallig tegen en kwam de zaak aan het rollen.

Israel’s National Security Minister Ben Gvir received a birthday cake decorated with a giant gold noose from his wife. The Hebrew text reads in part “sometimes dreams come true”—referring to Ben Gvir’s now-achieved dream of legalizing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

Een Amerikaans bespiedbedrijf infiltreert stilletjes Europa en krijgt toegang tot onze belangrijkste databanken, van ziekenhuizen tot politiesystemen. Het is tijd om de alarmbellen aan te slaan en dit een halt toe te roepen. Teken de petitie. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...

AI-generated sites are flooding the internet, swallowing all in their wake

This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaurs

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig... The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

Trump and his sons have enriched themselves by over 4 Billion dollars since he came into office This is by FAR the most corrupt administration ever

Imagine traveling back to 1776, bringing news from April 2026 that people flew around the moon again and that the KING of the Netherlands felt the need to say to America that democracy is non-negotiable.

Stephen Hawking's parents when people asked them what their son's book is about:

Reading about boustrophedon in chapter B from @dannybate.bsky.social's lovely book, I wonder if someone ever offered the explanation that this is just a natural way to write? When my eldest learned his first letters, he would write in boustrophedon, including changing the direction of the letters.

‘LLMs are inherently probabilistic, not deterministic. They try to guess the answer that sounds best, not the objectively correct one. And that’s not a problem to be fixed. It’s fundamental to how these models work.’

Ok I have the correct book now, @dannybate.bsky.social, but they left out a couple of underscores in my copy

We’re just getting started.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Na de vreselijke mishandeling van het Vlaardingse pleegmeisje, was er enorme boosheid. Terecht. In het spoeddebat eisten álle partijen dat er beter naar kinderen wordt geluisterd. Nu -een jaar later- stemt een Kamermeerderheid tégen ons voorstel dat dit daadwerkelijk regelt. 😔

More like artifictional intelligence amirite

I ordered at the same time @drdragases.bsky.social's and @dannybate.bsky.social's books (note to self: cut back on social media). And look what came in the mail today. Big question: did they confuse this with Clovis, or with Why Q Needs U?

People in a number of fields seem incapable of factoring anything Donald Trump has ever said or done into their analysis. Instead they treat him and his regime like a blank slate. It’s maddening.

They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.

Looking into breaking my "no new books" policy by buying @dannybate.bsky.social 's 'Why Q Needs U' but I hesitate

Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”

The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

Goh @yvanspijk.bsky.social, dat woord 'obus' heeft een mooie rondreis door Europa gemaakt zeg! In elk geval een mooiere reis dan de granaat in kwestie. ;-)

nos.nl/l/2600415 "Muziekjournalist Verdonschot zag in Minneapolis diezelfde, rechtlijnige Springsteen als toen. "Ik denk trouwens wel dat hij een tijd lang heeft gedacht: ik moet een bruggenbouwer zijn tussen Republikeinen en Democraten." Wat verstaat deze muziekjournalist onder "bruggenbouwer"??

Vraag aan @mennovdbos.bsky.social (of anderen): is er ergens al een reportage over AI-muziek en extreemrechts? Onvrijwillig blootgesteld aan een zender met Nederlandstalige muziek hoorde ik een slecht satirisch lied over het nieuwe kabinet. Door "Ademlicht", wat oogt als een xenofobische AI-account

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.